• Early care and education opportunities in nurturing environments where
  children can learn what they need to succeed in school and life.

• Comprehensive health services that meet children’s vision, hearing,
  nutrition, behavioral, and oral health as well as medical health needs.

• Early identification, assessment and appropriate services for children
  with special health care needs, disabilities, or developmental delays

• Economic and parenting supports to ensure children have nurturing
  and stable relationships with caring adults.

Build and its partners recognize the following components as described by the
School Readiness Solutions Group as those fundamental to creating Ohio’s system.

Quality Early Learning Settings
Early care and education settings are safe for children and establish the conditions
necessary to promote child development and early learning that prepares children
for school and life success.

Professional and Workforce Development
Practitioners working with young children are well prepared with the competencies,
skills and knowledge necessary to promote children’s development, learning and
school readiness.

Governance and Accountability
Management and accountability structures exist to oversee the early care and education
system to ensure operational effectiveness, fiscal responsibility and desired results for
children, families, early care and education settings, schools and communities.

Financing
Stable, sufficient funding is available to support high-quality early care and education
programs, family supports and the early care and education system infrastructure
essential to the effectiveness of programs and services.

Involved Families, Informed Public
Families have the knowledge, skills and supports they need to foster children’s early
development and learning. Families participate as partners with early care and education
practitioners. The public, including policy makers, is informed of the importance of early
development and learning in a way that creates demand for high-quality early care and
education programs and family supports.

Linkages and Coordination with Related Systems
The early care and education system is coordinated with related systems, such as health,
mental health, social services and K-12 education so that children and families have the
supports they need.